Firas Invites: Sanam / Beyt Al Tapes

Film & Concert

VIERNULVIER & de Koer & Splinter

Fri 24.10

19:30 - 00:00

Locatie

19:30 doors
20:00 Beyt Al Tapes
20:30 screening 'Sonic Gestures, Political Murmurs'
21:30 SANAM
22:30 DJ Firas
00:00 end

Not quite a concert. Not quite a screening. But something shared / a moment of resonance, to the city that audiovisual artist and curator Firas El Hallak has called home for the past five years.

For this avant-premiere, Firas El Hallak presents his debut film: a sonic and political gesture shaped by memory and rupture.

The evening continues with a live performance by SANAM, the boundary-pushing Lebanese band whose music melts the borders between improvisation and Arabic musical traditions. Their sound pulses with ancestral echoes, experimental force, and collective breath. Tape composer Beyt al Tapes will also be there, sowing confusion with his tape collages and quadraphonic spatializations.

This is not a spectacle; it’s an invitation.
To listen. To gather. To hold space.

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About Firas El Hallak

Firas El Hallak is a versatile audiovisual artist and curator based between Lebanon and Belgium. His work spans film, installation, and new-media art, and has been showcased internationally in galleries, cultural centers, and festivals. With a diverse portfolio that includes films, comics, and documentaries, Firas is also an active collaborator in art

collectives across Beirut and Europe, exploring the role of artists in an audiovisual-driven culture.

About SANAM

SANAM's music is a ritual where improvised rock, free jazz and noise underscore an exorcism of traditional Egyptian song and Arabic poetry.

Sandy Chamoun (vocals), Antonio Hajj (bass), Farah Kaddour (buzuk), Anthony Sahyoun (guitar, synth), Pascal Semerdjian (drums) and Marwan Tohme (guitars) bring a myriad of influences gleaned from years performing either solo or as members of influential acts in Beirut’s tight-knit independent music scene (such as Al Rahel al Kabir, Postcards, Kinematik and Oviid).

About support Beyt al Tapes

Beyt al Tapes is (besides being a very lazy label) an avant-garde bicycle (error)oerist, tape composer & modernist romantic who injects old-fashioned musique concréte with a heavy dose of 2000s-DIY aesthetics. BAT plays with brutal tape collages, quadrophonic spatialisations and performances that (sometimes) transcend the lame joke. He explores the superfluous, the speculative and the tension between reality and the real, the fabulous and the manufactured. Rumour has it that BAT dares to masquerade as ghost, cobblestone photographer and accountant. Key term: “confusion”.

Zoom in

Beirut Group SANAM’s debut record Aykathani Malakon blasts to life with its mix of low-tuned guitar jams, industrial drums, and earthy vocals - an immersive collection of dark and spacious textures.

The Guardian (Global Albums of the Month, June 2023)